Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 27 September 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

General Banking Issues: Discussion

Dr. Colin Hunt:

On that point, we built 97,500 new units in 2007 in an economy that probably needed about 35,000. There was massive overbuilding. An interesting point of reference is, I think it was in 2007, we built 97,500, as I said, in the Republic. In the entirety of the UK, house building that year was about 150,000. There was massive overbuilding at that point. I do not think anybody could accuse the construction industry of oversupplying the market at this juncture.

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